Additions to the knowledge of the land snails of Sabah (Malaysia, Borneo), including 48 new species
Author
Vermeulen, Jaap J.
Author
Liew, Thor-Seng
Author
Schilthuizen, Menno
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.531.6097
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.531.6097
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Taxon classification Animalia Stylommatophora Camaenidae
Amphidromus psephos Vermeulen, Liew & Schilthuizen
sp. n.
Figure 40
Holotype
.
Malaysia
,
Sabah
,
Interior Province
,
Pun Batu c. 30 km West of Sepulut
(
RMNH.5003951
).
Examined material from Sabah.
Interior Province. Pun Batu c. 30 km West of Sepulut (leg. J.J. Vermeulen, V 1311).
Description.
Shell sinistral, rather large, rather thin but rather solid, opaque, white, top whorls with or without some oblique, pale brownish-purple markings, spire high-conical with convex sides to approx. narrowly ovoid; apex narrowly rounded. Surface shiny. Whorls: top whorls convex, other whorls slightly convex, flat or slightly concave just below the suture; last whorl rounded at the periphery, slightly convex below the periphery. Protoconch whorls rounded, minutely punctate. Teleoconch: few growth lines at irregular intervals, locally slightly raised. Spiral sculpture: a faint, very fine, dense stration locally present. Aperture slightly obliquely elliptic, peristome distinctly reflected on the palatal, basal and columellar side. Umbilicus closed, or rimate, a narrow pore underneath the reflected columellar peristome. Dimensions: Height 24-25 mm; width 11-12 mm; number of whorls 5-5 1/2; height aperture 11.0-11.5 mm; width aperture 6.5-7.5 mm.
Figure 40-41. 40
Amphidromus psephos
sp. n. Frontal view, shell 24 mm high (Malaysia, Sabah, Interior Province, Pun Batu c. 30 km West of Sepulut, RMNH.5003951, holotype) 41
Trachia serpentinitica
sp. n. 41A Frontal view, shell 11.5 mm high 41B Same shell, umbilical view (Malaysia, Sabah, Sandakan Province, Gunung Meliau, South flank, BOR/MOL 3201, holotype).
Habitat in Sabah and distribution.
Found in shrubby forest on limestone bedrock. Alt. c. 500 m. Sabah: Interor, Pun Batu only. Endemic to Sabah.
Cross diagnosis.
The small size, combined with the narrow spire uniquely identifies this species within in the genus
Amphidromus
.
Etymology.
The name refers to the size of the shell [psephos (Gr.) = pebble].